12/28/2011 05:58:00 PM
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Tranquil PC, a company specialized in developing computers tweaked for silent running, has just announced a forthcoming design for a new media center system dubbed the MMC-12 that will pack Intel’s Sandy Bridge processors inside its 1.5-inch case.
The system is constructed from metal and finished in a satin-textured matte black, its front panel showing only a power button, a badge with the company’s name on it and a slot loading optical drive.
Users have the option of going for either a DVD or Blu-ray ODD when they configure their system and will also be able to choose from various Intel Sandy Bridge processors.
Judging by a post on the company’s official blog, the CPU options list will include chips from the Core i3, i5 and i7 product families, although we doubt that 95W TDP models will be on the list of supported processors.
The good news however is that since we are talking about Sandy Bridge CPUs, this means that users will be able to take advantage of the Quick Sync technology included in these chips for drastically decreasing the time needed for transcoding video.
The rest of the MMC-12 features weren’t made public by Tranquil PC yet, but it’s safe to say that no major surprises will come our way given the limited space available inside the case.
Pricing and availability of the MMC-12 HTPC also wasn’t detailed, although Tranquil PC did reveal that the MMC-12 will arrive in 2012.
If you are familiar with Tranquil PC’s product lineup then you pretty much know that this isn’t the first low-profile system developed by the company, but compared to its predecessors the MMC-12 comes as a big step forward since it swaps the previous Atom or Pentium M chips with second generation Core CPUs.
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